How to change video preview?

Hi Sergey.

You can only set the poster for a video using one of its frames by uploading the video from the VideoPress block, using the slider as soon as you upload the video there. (Before clicking the Done button.)

See image: https://cloudup.com/cXjfGNLnsiO

Unfortunately, you cannot do it afterward. Neither from the video management admin page provided by this plugin.

After uploading, you’ll only get to update the poster image by uploading an image from your computer or choosing one from among previously uploaded images from the Media library.

I’d recommend deleting the uploaded video from the VideoPress plugin media admin interface and re-uploading from the block to get the chance to select a frame.

Selecting a frame from a video is a standard feature of any video hosting service. Why are you ignoring it? Selecting a picture from a file is inconvenient. It has to be drawn, and that requires an additional designer.

Further UI integration for that feature is coming in the next release of this plugin. As I mentioned before, the ability to choose a frame is there. It has been there like that for some time in the Jetpack plugin, and we’re improving the UX of many aspects with this new plugin.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Osk.

Hi, Sergey.

We just released the 1.1.0 version that includes the preview change by video frame feature. It should now be possible to click on Update thumbnail and Select from video.